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1. Statistical Inference. Statistics is part of the methodology of science—pure and applied. It is pertinent to the various goals of science proper: explanation and understanding, prediction and control, discovery and application, justification, classification. Various writers have set down block diagrams illustrating how scientific enquiry proceeds and how statistics impinges on that process. We mention Bartlett (1967), Box (1976), Mohr (1977) and Parzen (1980). An early writerwas Kempthorne (1952) who set down (essentially) the following diagram.
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Brillinger, D.R. (1984). Statistical Inference for Irregularly Observed Processes. In: Parzen, E. (eds) Time Series Analysis of Irregularly Observed Data. Lecture Notes in Statistics, vol 25. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-9403-7_3
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